Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a 2015 novel by Salman Rushdie.

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Cover of first edition
AuthorSalman Rushdie
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherJonathan Cape
Publication date
10 September 2015
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages286 pp. (hardback)
ISBN978-1910702031 (hardback)

The novel is set in New York in the near future. It deals with jinns, and recounts the story of a jinnia princess and her offspring during the "strangenesses". After a great storm, slits between the world of jinns and the world of men are opened and strange phenomena emerge as dark jinnis invade the Earth. The jinnia princess and her children thus need to fight to defend the Earth and the humans from them, the Grand Ifrits. All the while, the Great Philosopher Averroes (Ibn Rushd) and the famous theologian Al-Ghazali pursue a philosophical debate about reason and God.

The title is a reference to the 1,001 nights Scheherazade spent telling stories in the Arabian Nights.[1]

Critical reception

In a review of the book in The Guardian, Erica Wagner said that it is a "wonderful" novel and praised Rushdie: "the dark delights that spring from his imagination in this novel have the spellbinding energy that has marked the greatest storytellers since the days of Scheherazade."[1]

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References
  1. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/13/two-years-eight-months-twenty-eight-nights-review-salman-rushdie
  1. http://www.thestatesman.com/news/8th-day/end-of-war-conflict-and-tension-but-at-the-cost-of-dreams/89690.html#EyDGcCEU7d8zGP71.99
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